Theses on the Constituent Assembly:

1. The Constituent Assembly and the revolution of October 25. The people on November 12 could not yet know.

2. The Constituent Assembly and the struggle for peace: the people on November 12 could not yet judge concerning it, could not even know.

3. The Constituent Assembly and partisanship (proportional representation).

4. The split in the peasant congress of December 6, 1917.

5. The split in the Socialist-Revolutionary party (end of November 1917).

6. The struggle within Vikzhel and the railway congress (December 10 and 15).

7. The struggle within the army (the masses and the army committees).

(ad 4–7[52]). The worker wave and the soviet (as of October 25, 1917): lists were already prepared in just 18 days before November 12.

The army goes [follows] (army congresses of November 1917).

The peasantry goes [follows] (II All-Russian Peasant Congress of December 7, 1917).

8. The Constituent Assembly and Soviet Power. The vanguard of the masses and the entire masses.

9. The Constituent Assembly and civil war (Cadet-Kaledin armed uprising).

10. ΣΣ[53] = man is not made for the Sabbath.

11. Waves of upsurge (revolution) did not coincide with the moment of elections to the Constituent Assembly.

12. The right of re-election.

Elections and democracy. The right of recall.

13. Blind elections: when the people do not know the actual subject of struggle (ad 12).

14. The Constituent Assembly and the party program.

Program versus October–December 1917:

A Republic with a Constituent Assembly is higher than a republic with a pre-parliament.

A Republic of Soviets is higher than a republic with a Constituent Assembly.

A Republic of complete socialism is higher than a republic of Soviets.

A communist society is higher than a socialist republic.

Written December 11 or 12 (December 24 or 25), 1917.

First published in 1957 in the journal "Questions of the History of the CPSU," No. 3

Printed from the manuscript